Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-02-03
A MOTHER
Stays HER FIVE CHILDREN AND
THEN HANGS HERsELF.
The Children Found upon n Bed
WeItering in Blood,
While the Lifeiess Form OF the In.
sane Woman Was Discovered
Hanging in the Basement-The
Deed Was Committed With
d. Pair of Scissors.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 2O.-At Independ-
ence and Petrie-sts. was enacted a terri
BILE tragedy this morning. Mrs. Tonic
Cabalek, demented, killed her five
children and then committed suicide.
James Cabalek is Bohemian car
penter. There were eight children,
himself and wife, Tonic. About three
months ago the family was enlarged by
the advent of babe, since which Mrs.
Cabalek had acted very strangely.
This morning the family arose as usual,
but Mrs. Cabalek seemed unusually
petulant and scolded her husband and
children for the most trivial occurren-
ces. At 6:35 o'clock Cabalek and Al
bert, his 19-year-Old son left the house
for their work. Shortly afterward the
mother sent Harry, aged II, to a gro
cery store half mile away. George,
another son, aged ten, was sent to a
store in an opposite direction. In theif
absence the terrible affair took place
At 7:30 George returned, and found the
doors all locked. He became alarmed
and ran for his father and brother, who
were at work a quarter of mile dis
tant. Albert, the young man, left his
work and accompanied his little broth
er home. Arriving at the house the
doors were found still locked, and with
an6x he broke open the kitchen door
and rushed in. Glancing toward the
bedroom, the door of which was slightly
ajar, a sightmet his gaze which COM
pletely ,unnerved him. Upon the bed
he saw his four youngest brothers and
sisters, their clothes covered with
blood. Behind the bed, lying on the
floor was his sister, Tenie, aged eight
years, fairly weltering in blood, but
still conscious. BY this time the father
had arrived, and the two instituted a
search for the mother. She was no.
where to be found down stairs, and
they finally found her in the basement,
dead,
81. SUSPENDED FROM THE RAFTERS
by a clothes line. Near her feet was an
empty barrel which she had evidently
used as a platform while arranging the
fatal knot. The husband cut the rope
as soon as possible and carried his wife
up stairs, but she was dead. In the
meantime d neighbor te4ephoned for
physicians, and Drs. Brooks and Han
sen arrived at the house soon after the
three dead children were found on the
bed. Mamie, aged 6 years, lay across
the pillow, dead. She was terribly cut
in the abdomen; at least
8 TEN GAsHEs WERE IN HER SIDE
Just below the heart. Annie, a little
4-year-old girl, was stretched across the
foot Of the bed also dead. There were
IA wounds in her bowels. Until this
time the babe had been forgotten, and
neighbors noticed the cradle pushed in
to q recess behind the door, and push
ing back the cloth, the child was found
dead with two orthree cuts in the lower
portion of the stomach. Jimmie and
Tenie were found to be still living and
were removed to a neighbours house
where their wounds were dressed.
Both children were horribly hacked,
Tenie who is in the worst condition of
the two, has IL wounds in the vicinity
of the heart. She can live but a few
hours. Jimmie was cut 16 times in the
left side. His chances for recovery are
very slight. AS result of the tragedy
four are now dead and two more dying.
The weapon with which the wounds
were inflicted was a pair of long scissors
with sharp prongs.